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Now, when the people of Sepphoris had, in so surprising a manner,
escaped their first danger, they sent to Cestius Gallus, and desired him
to come to them immediately, and take possession of their city, or else
to send forces sufficient to repress all their enemies' incursions upon
them; and at the last they did prevail with Gallus to send them a considerable
army, both of horse and foot, which came in the night time, and which they
admitted into the city. But when the country round about it was harassed
by the Roman army, I took those soldiers that were about me, and came to
Garisme, where I cast up a bank, a good way off the city Sepphoris; and
when I was at twenty furlongs distance, I came upon it by night, and made
an assault upon its walls with my forces; and when I had ordered a considerable
number of my soldiers to scale them with ladders, I became master of the
greatest part of the city. But soon after, our unacquaintedness with the
places forced us to retire, after we had killed twelve of the Roman footmen,
and two horsemen, and a few of the people of Sepphoris, with the loss of
only a single man of our own. And when it afterwards came to a battle in
the plain against the horsemen, and we had undergone the dangers of it
courageously for a long time, we were beaten; for upon the Romans encompassing
me about, my soldiers were afraid, and fell back. There fell in that battle
one of those that had been intrusted to guard my body; his name was Justus,
who at this time had the same post with the king. At the same time also
there came forces, both horsemen and footmen, from the king, and Sylla
their commander, who was the captain of his guard: this Sylla pitched his
camp at five furlongs' distance from Julias, and set a guard upon the roads,
both that which led to Cana, and that which led to the fortress Gamala,
that he might hinder their inhabitants from getting provisions out of Galilee.

Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.

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